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Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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They violently break all the recent frontend best practices. Where is the React or Vie, SPA architecture, tons of JS? There should be a federal law prohibiting making fast and simple UIs so that nobody will have concerns that the UI frameworks war leads us to great future.

I love the design and wish a sufficiently large part of the web looked like this... Incidentally, it's a bit like HN.

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

#52
post #41

They violently break all the recent frontend best practices. Where is the React or Vie, SPA architecture, tons of JS? There should be a federal law prohibiting making fast and simple UIs so that nobody will have concerns that the UI frameworks war leads us to great future.

I'm sorry, sarcasm is not the best way to communicate an important point here at Hacker News. I appreciate the attempt at humor, but, it's not funny.

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

#53

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gitweb requires server setup, while Mercurial web ui can quickly start locally without any configuration and that was the one of mercurial selling point until github and other services arrives.

`git instaweb` is sufficient to get a working gitweb stood up.

$ git instaweb

lighttpd not found. Install lighttpd or use --httpd to specify another httpd daemon.

Apparently, not.

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

#54
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The competitor is leaving the market, which hardly makes them a competitor at all. Any users who don't want to be left out in the cold need tools like this.

Then why not make the tool open source + standalone and compatible with other alternatives like GitHub/GitLab/Gitea/Gogs/etc. so the users can pick the competitor or tool they like?

None of them support Mercurial. Everything is open source. You’re behaving incredibly weirdly.

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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That's... really rude. Sourcehut has been around for a while: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=sourcehut&sort=byPopularity&pr...

Doesn't mean you're not fishing for users there.

That’s the point. That’s the point for half of the Internet.

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

#56
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Bots? I have a hard time beleiving that a paid service has a silent fanbase. But maybe they do.

I am one. Happy paying user, upvoted sourcehut's posts because I like to support independent services, but rarely commented.

Ok never mind then.

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

#57
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post #24

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Then why not make the tool open source + standalone and compatible with other alternatives like GitHub/GitLab/Gitea/Gogs/etc. so the users can pick the competitor or tool they like?

Why are you stating that the tool is not open source? Did you even check that?

Open source + standalone, it's not standalone.

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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Then why not make the tool open source + standalone and compatible with other alternatives like GitHub/GitLab/Gitea/Gogs/etc. so the users can pick the competitor or tool they like?

The tool is open source, and none of the services you listed support Mercurial, so...

But it's not standalone so everyone can use it privately, it only works for your service.

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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git has gitweb: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-GitWeb But in both cases, the user has to have a server to put it on, making services like Sourcehut and Bitbucket (may it rest in peace) useful.

gitweb requires server setup, while Mercurial web ui can quickly start locally without any configuration and that was the one of mercurial selling point until github and other services arrives.

I think the way you're using hg's web UI is slightly different to the uses I think of for sites like GitHub, BitBucket or SourceHut.

A web UI is fine for being able to see the different commits, and files at different points in time.

But people also make use of GitHub as a hosted repository for sharing code with others, as an issue tracker, and for doing code review etc. -- for sharing things outside a local network, there's the understanding that either you're paying someone else to host it, or you're making effort to host it yourself, so "requires setup" isn't much of an issue.

"sourcehut competes with bitbucket" puts more emphasis on the latter than the former.

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

#60
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The competitor is leaving the market, which hardly makes them a competitor at all. Any users who don't want to be left out in the cold need tools like this.

Then why not make the tool open source + standalone and compatible with other alternatives like GitHub/GitLab/Gitea/Gogs/etc. so the users can pick the competitor or tool they like?

OMG dude, just let it go. You've dug your heels in so much that HN won't even let me reply to your latest comment because you've hit a depth limit. This is just a marketing page. It wasn't sent to you as an email. Nobody erected a billboard outside your house. It's on the internet, where people are free to create and ignore stuff as they please. Do you really think you're bringing something to the table at this point or are you just trolling for fun?
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